1 Corinthians 10:7

World English Bible (2000)

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

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  • Exod 32:6-8 : 6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves! 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
  • Exod 32:17 : 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
  • Exod 32:19 : 19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
  • Deut 9:12 : 12 Yahweh said to me, "Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image."
  • Deut 9:16-21 : 16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you. 17 I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. 20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image. 20 Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 10:14 : 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
  • 1 Cor 14:20-22 : 20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. 21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord." 22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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    3and all ate the same spiritual food;

    4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

    5However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

    6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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    8Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

    9Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

    10Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

    11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

    12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

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    6They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

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    14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

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    9I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

    10yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

    11But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

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    7Therefore don't be partakers with them.

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    3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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    18Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

    19What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

    20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

    21You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

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    10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

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    7Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

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    20When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

    21For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

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    2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

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    7However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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    27But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

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    6When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

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    4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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    20Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

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    17"You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;